| SCIL,
better known for its label T-Series, had earlier moved the Delhi HC against the
two companies on account of rank infringement of its copyright in music by these
companies. YouTube.com,
a website owned and controlled by Google Inc., has become popular over the past
two years. The
site largely contains user generated content in the form of amateur videos, apart
from music videos from films and music albums. SCIL
claims that the business model of YouTube allows, encourages and profits from
use of copyrighted work uploaded on the website without obtaining any license
or permission from the rightful copyright owners and without paying them any royalty. According
to an official release, SCIL counsel Amit Sibal said that SCIL's revenue comes
from manufacturing and selling DVDs, CDs and audio cassettes of its copyrighted
music and from royalties collected by licensing the copyrighted music to hotels,
restaurants, television companies, radio stations, telecom operators and internet
websites. T-Series
says that YouTube LLC and its parent Google Inc. have on their website YouTube.com
been showing videos of SCIL's copyrighted songs without SCIL's license or permission. "There
are websites who encourage unlicensed sharing and distribution of copyright content,
which is a new form of piracy in the digital medium. Copyright is the engine of
creative output of popular content. We have to ensure that the incentive to create
and distribute popular content is protected from these large corporates which
are trying to profit by destroying the value of the hard work of thousands of
artistes, for whom their creative output is perhaps their only source of livelihood,"
said SCIL MD Bhushan Kumar, in an official statement. | 
